October 2011
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Rebels on the Street: The Party of Wall Street... →
By David Harvey - October 28, 2011
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“Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic...
AKA: Protect IP Act
This is taken from a longer article at GIGAOM by Mathew Ingram
Creating a firewall around the internet, just like China
According to Techdirt, which has been a vocal critic of the bill and its predecessors, the new legislation would create a “Great Firewall of America,” similar to the firewall that the Chinese government uses to keep its citizens from accessing...
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The Everywhere War →
Via: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 177, No. 3, September 2011, - .pdf
The Everywhere War
written by Derek Gregory
A scholarly analysis worth your time if you are interested in the big picture. Derek Gregory is is an influential British academic and geographer who is currently Professor of Political Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He formerly held positions...
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The big questions raised by anti-capitalist...
Taken from an editorial by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times Online
This is the end of the article read from beginning here
Once again, much of this debate is over use of macroeconomic policy tools: should one tighten or loosen fiscal policy in a recession? Are unconventional monetary policies a path to hyperinflation or effective policies in extreme circumstances? Again, just as radical...
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Watchpieto:
One of several amazing tracking shots from I Am Cuba dir. Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)
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Former Mexican President's (Vicente Fox)... →
buffleheadcabin:
Fox explains that the United States should learn from the history of alcohol prohibition and that the answer to today’s violence is to legalize drugs and treat them as a health issue, rather than a criminal issue.
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“In ’09 banks would not lend to each other. We were told it was a liquidity...”
– What would it look like if our leaders had lost control? By Golem XIV (via rumagin)
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“When the corporate and political bosses hear the rising roar from the people,...”
– Ralph Nader
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Humans were hunting mastodons in what is now... →
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Naomi Klein: “Occupy Wall Street is the Most... →
Via: Take The Square
Naomi Klien’s Address at Occupy Wall Street
I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others could hear (a.k.a. “the human microphone”), what I actually said at Liberty Plaza had to be very short. With that in mind,...
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Get Hacked, Don’t Tell: Drone Base Didn’t Report... →
Via: Dangerroom
By By Noah Shachtman October 11, 2011
Officials at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada knew for two weeks about a virus infecting the drone “cockpits” there. But they kept the information about the infection to themselves — leaving the unit that’s supposed to serve as the Air Force’s cybersecurity specialists in the dark. The network defenders at the 24th Air Force learned...
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Cost of Tax Cuts to the Wealthy →
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Mark Cuban on Taxing Wall Street
Tax the Hell Out of Wall Street; Give it to Main Street
Sep 30th 2008 9:02AM
Tax every single share of stock that is bought and sold 10 cents per transaction. One dime. If you buy a share of stock, your brokerage pays a 10c tax. If you sell a share, your brokerage pays a 10c tax. 1 share, 100 million shares. Its 10 cents per share.
Of course the tax will be paid for by those of...
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Hyperbolic Futures →
Via: Steven Shavior @ The Pinocchio Theory
